The investigation into the March 24 crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 in the French Alps during a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf-killing all 150 people on board-took on the tenor of a criminal probe on March 26 when a French prosecutor said information from flight 4U9525's cockpit voice recorder (CVR) indicated the co-pilot "through a voluntary act" descended the aircraft. Prosecutor Brice Robin said co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was alone in the cockpit at the time of the crash and the flight's captain was locked out. "While he is alone, the co-pilot presses the buttons of the flight monitoring system to put into action the descent of the airplane," Robin said, adding, "This action on the altitude controls can only be deliberate."
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